The Matt Walsh Show - Introducing The Pope and the Führer: The Secret Vatican Files of World War II with Michael Knowles
Aired: 2025-08-17
Duration: 01:19


=== Answer the Call (01:19) ===

[00:00:00]  These are questions that take cultures thousands of years to answer.
[00:00:04]  During Answer the Call, I take questions from people just like you about their problems, opportunities, challenges, or when they simply need advice.
[00:00:12]  How do I balance all of this grief, responsibility?
[00:00:15]  How do you repair this kind of damage?
[00:00:18]  My daughter, Michaela, guides the conversations as we hopefully help people navigate their lives.
[00:00:24]  Everyone has their own destiny.
[00:00:31]  For 80 years, the narrative about Pope Pius XII during World War II has been simple and also wrong.
[00:00:38]  They called him Hitler's Pope, accused him of silence, complicity, cowardice.
[00:00:42]  It's been repeated so many times, most people stopped asking whether any of it was actually true.
[00:00:46]  Now, for the first time, we have the documents, the real ones from the Vatican's once-secret wartime archive.
[00:00:53]  They tell a very different story.
[00:00:54]  In a new four-part series, The Pope and the Führer, the secret Vatican Files of World War II, Michael Knowles investigates what the church actually did during World War II.
[00:01:03]  What did the Pope know?
[00:01:04]  Why did he speak publicly?
[00:01:06]  And why has the story been twisted for so long?
[00:01:09]  This series is the most in-depth look at yet one of the most misunderstood figures of the 20th century with access to files that were hidden for nearly 80 years.
[00:01:17]  The truth matters, and that's why we made this series.